Most of your questions were funneled to: 'How did you come up publishing your book?', 'What urged you to do so?', or 'How long did it take for you to write it?', 'Was it difficult?'.
As written on my 'Author's note' in my book "One of the Boys: Men in Poems", I wrote it on spree of the moment. Well it's not written there how I saw myself too engrossed with playing RPG ; waking up and going to bed just completing my dailies and joining events (only an RPG gamer can understand this ), and not to discount my constant sharing of memes and posts. Some already notice how vast my time was.
I was in between companies when the lockdown happened; quit a 6-year job and was supposed to jump right next to another company but got stuck in between due to COVID 19. Working for several years in Operations turned me into a whole different person. I felt like I was always in a rush. I got lost in standards I set too high for myself to reach. I compared myself to several people I know I can never beat. I never thought of resting. I was literally planning to right away jump to a different company where I can start anew.
When rest was forced upon me, I complained for having too much time. I decluttered stuff and found the person I was before. The passion I thought I already lost. I never was an RPG gamer so I looked for things to learn about; things that I never knew I loved. I learned to play piano, wrote songs and realized how my tone has a limit while my words don't. There are several things in my head, I want it all out. So I binged watched YouTube DIYs on self publishing while writing my craft for 1 straight week. After writing 50 poems in 1 week time, I studied amazon, formatting and creating a book cover for another 1 straight week, then boom, Amazon approved my work after a few back and forths due to their strict quality check.
You see, there is more to life than just work, earn, eat and sleep. If one day, I may have to leave the world, my vision was to leave a piece of me on Earth. Just as how my father left me memories after his passing
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